April 2019
Cleaning up space
... and debris) 8100 tonnes of space objects in orbit. The number of debris objects estimated by statistical models to be in orbit is: 34,000 objects greater than 10 cm 900,000 objects from 1 cm to 10 cm 130 million objects from 1 mm to 1 cm. Even with...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... a country’s own assets, and not a third party’s space object, as when China destroyed one of its own satellites in an...However, a dispute over the existence or operation of a space object or facility would not arise overnight and the nations involved ...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
...spacecraft and may provide additional revenue streams to servicing providers. In-orbit inspection involves approaching a space object from a satellite already in orbit to observe, image and identify causes of failure or malfunction. Inspection covers...
17 November 2021
Debris from destroyed Russian satellite now visible in telescope images
... in size and spread in a ring around the Earth that will likely remain on orbit to threaten other space objects for years to come. “Regardless of rationale, to deliberately create orbital debris of this magnitude is extremely irresponsible,” said...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
...) uses the known locations of satellites, estimated trajectories of trackable pieces of debris, and other variables to predict where space objects will likely be a few days into the future. Through this process, known as conjunction assessment, JSpOC...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... of debris will be slowed, buying time for debris removal technology to be developed. 2. Remove the debris from space. Remote manoeuvre of space objects from the earth is feasible and SERC aims to move debris into safe orbits, or even to de-orbit...
